{"id":164,"date":"2018-11-16T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:08:18","slug":"waiting-at-the-lek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-at-the-lek\/","title":{"rendered":"WAITING AT THE LEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WAITING AT THE LEK<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the mist-black dawn,<br \/>\nhouse finches rustled<br \/>\nin the leaf-bare cottonwood.<br \/>\nPrairie wind celloed<br \/>\nthrough withered grass.<br \/>\nAbove the plain,<br \/>\nancient leks were quiet<br \/>\nuntil sharp-tailed grouse<br \/>\nbegan to display. their purple sacs<br \/>\noboed into the brightening day.<br \/>\nAs afternoon dusted<br \/>\ninto evening gray,<br \/>\nsandhill cranes, heads<br \/>\ncapped in port wine red,<br \/>\nreturned to the Platte.<br \/>\nFlocks flew in from<br \/>\nthe fields covering<br \/>\nsilted waters<br \/>\nlike a growing blanket.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional mounds disappear<br \/>\nunder shopping malls,<br \/>\nrivers are drained for fountains.<br \/>\nFields over-grazed,<br \/>\nthe orchestra fades.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Poetry Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAITING AT THE LEK In the mist-black dawn, house finches rustled in the leaf-bare cottonwood. Prairie wind celloed through withered grass. Above the plain, ancient leks were quiet until sharp-tailed grouse began to display. their purple sacs oboed into the brightening day. As afternoon dusted into evening gray, sandhill cranes, heads capped in port wine&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/waiting-at-the-lek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WAITING AT THE LEK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}